Mantis Radio 128 + Kawatin

Spring finally arrives to England and with it a session from Japan’s Kawatin. We play music from Wolf Eyes, Kryptic Minds, Baby Ford and Eon, EDMX, AnD, Global Goon, Rivet, Harmonic313 and a certain Death Grips remix.

IN SESSION

Hailing from Tokyo, Hirotaka Kawano (Kawatin) is, it’s fair to say, quite the impressive one in the studio. A slew of original work and remixes already behind him, his is a sound of immersive broken tech bass.

Releases on Ricochet Records, Glack Audio and Rune Recordings sit with remix work for, amongst others Si Begg’s Noodle Recordings; most recently on the mammoth UFO Remixes project. His work always with that deep psychedelic slant, often packaged into a deft cerebral force of driving sonic frequencies and electro tendencies.

It was Si Begg who first put me on to Kawano’s sound; back in 2006. Shortly after his début Play The Funk EP on Play Recordings, it was his On The Rice remix of Begg’s My Style that quickly caught my ear.

After a wealth of EPs his first album proper, K-Truck, arrived in October last year on London’s Ricochet Records imprint together with the more chilled offering of Recovery of Lost Function, released earlier in the year on Ukrainian label Rune Chill Recordings.

..the music from this japanese artist is totally unpredictable. In his own way – alert and hypnotic… – ClubbingSpain